Signatures of eyewitnesses to the Gardelegen massacre
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Most of the signatures of the eyewitnesses to the Gardelegen Massacre were placed on the document during a convention of the 102nd Infantry Division Association that apparently occurred not long before a copy of the document was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives by Oscar Nathans on behalf of the association. According to Mr. Nathans, the document also includes three signatures of eyewitnesses who were not at the convention. The copy was sent to Susan Morgenstein of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Special Exhibitions Department in Sept. 1991. It was transferred first to Jacek Nowakowski of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collections Department, and then to the United States Holocaust Research Institute Archives in Feb. 1992.
Scope and Content
Consists of a certified copy of a list of signatures headed "Gardelegen-April 13, 1945 U.S. Army--102nd Infantry Division in Germany." The document includes two photographs of the barn where the Gardelegen massacre occurred, one of which shows burned bodies. It is signed by a number of U.S. veterans who were eyewitnesses to the aftermath of the atrocity.
People
- Nathans, Oscar.
Corporate Bodies
- United States. Army. Infantry Division, 102nd
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Germany--Gardelegen.
- Gardelegen Massacre, Gardelegen, Germany, 1945.
Genre
- Photographs.
- Document